February 8, 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

February Book Give-away!

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Visual Art

America's Answer! Production (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942)

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Yuletide at Winterthur Offers Literature-Inspired Festive Experiences

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Rare Books

Expositione del Tricasso Mantuano sopra il Cocle al illustrissimo signore S. Federico Gonzaga marchese Mantua by Paride Ceresara

Women Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Firsts London 2026 Theme is 'Revolution'

Shapero Rare Books to Sell Personal Library of Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe

Exhibitions

Fairy Tales Celebrated in Major New Exhibition

New Huntington Library Exhibition Celebrates Links Between Land and American History

Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life

Book People

Barnett Freedman's seven-panel  peepshow In Winter & In Summer You Can Be Sure of Shell (London, Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, c. 1928)

Ephemera Society of America Fair Returns in March

Rare Book Community Mourns Death of Richard C. Ramer

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Honorable Mention Amalia V on Collecting Sex

Photographs

Mom at Work (detail) from Family Pictures and Stories, 1978–1984, Carrie Mae Weems. Gelatin silver print.

Getty Museum Focuses on Photography and the Black Arts Movement

'Brassaï’s Secret Paris' Opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

Maps

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Americana

James Monroe, Robert R. Livingston, and Francois Barbe-Marbois documents signed for the Ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty (estimate: $20,000+)

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the Louisiana Purchase Lead Presidents Sale

Railroadiana Ephemera: Five Rare Items for Collectors

Steve Jobs Signed Apple Check No. 1 Sold for $2.4m at Auction

Auctions

Bonhams Opens New U.S. Headquarters

Gold Rush Letters, 'Puck' cartoons, and 'Lucrèce Borgia' Photos: The Week in Rare Books

Rothschild Vienna Mahzor 15th Century Hebrew Prayerbook Sold for $6.4m

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